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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century - Happy Birthday, Buck
episode 1.13
USA 1980
produced by Jock Gaynor, David J. O'Connell, Glen A. Larson (executive) for Glen A. Larson Productions, Universal/NBC
directed by Sigmund Neufeld jr
starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Tim O'Connor, Morgan Brittany, Tamara Dobson, Peter MacLean, Mel Blanc (voice), Eric Server (voice), Harry Johnson, Bruce Wright, Ernesto Macias, Abraham Alvarez, Harry Gold, Tom Gagen, Clay Alexander, Victoria Woodbeck, Gina Gallego
written by Martin Pasko, based on characters by Philip Francis Nowlan, Robert C. Dille, music by J.J. Johnson, visual effects supervisor: Peter Anderson
TV-series Buck Rogers, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
review by Mike Haberfelner
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It's Buck's (Gil Gerard) 534th birthday, and he's a bit down -
basically homesick to his own time -, so his friends/colleagues Wilma
Deering (Erin Gray) and Dr. Huer (Tim O'Connor) decides to throw him a
surprise birthday party. The only problem, they need to get him out of his
apartment long enough to prepare things. Good thing then that Dr. Huer's
life is presently endangered, and he has to send his location to Central
Security via human courier, a person who gets the information implanted
into their subconscious, so they don't even know what information they're
carrying. And as it happens, this time around the human courier is lovely
Raylyn (Morgan Brittany), and since Buck's known to like lovely ladies,
she is used as a decoy to keep him out of his home long enough ... Thing
is, even if Dr. Huer doesn't take it seriously, his life is under threat,
as a long thought dead pilot, Col. Traeger (Peter MacLean), who during a
mission under Huer's command crashlanded on a planet and was taken to an
underground prison for espionage for 15 years, wants revenge on him. In
captivity he has learned some extra deadly skills as to how to turn things
and people into silicone by mere touch of the hand, but his eyes have gone
super-sensitive. And now he has hooked up with an old flame of his,
psychiatrist Dr. Bayliss (Tamara Dobson), and with some advanced psycho
device, she's to glean the info about Huer's whereabouts from Raylyn -
who's pretty much kidnapped from right under Buck's nose. Buck manages to
track her down though, but is captured by Traeger and Doc Bayliss.
However, he manages to free himself and race after Traeger - who arrives
at the surprise party only to be blinded by the candles of Buck's birthday
cake. He can recover from that, but when he wants to turn Huer into
silicone, Buck arrives and makes Traeger fall onto his own hand ... A
fun if rather average episode - but hey, it has somebody being blinded by
a birthday cake, that doesn't happen every day, and Traeger's power to
turn people into silicone is wonderfully campy. Apart from that, the thing
moves at a brisk enough pace to not revel in its shortcomings too much,
and Peter MacLean and Tamara Dobson make a good pair of villains, but at
the same time is probably forgotten in just a few days.
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